[PDF] Natural Rebels eBook

Author : Hilary Beckles
Publisher :
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 20,12 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813515106

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Social, economic, and labor history of slave women in Barbados from the mid-17th to the mid-19th century.

Author : Hilary Beckles
Publisher : Zed Bks
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 27,91 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Social Science
ISBN :

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Social, economic, and labor history of slave women in Barbados from the mid-17th to the mid-19th century.

Author : Jennifer M. Hazen
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,77 MB
Release : 2013-03-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0801467578

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How easy is it for rebel groups to purchase weapons and ammunition in the middle of a war? How quickly can commodities such as diamonds and cocoa be converted into cash to buy war supplies? And why does answering these questions matter for understanding civil wars? In What Rebels Want, Jennifer M. Hazen challenges the commonly held view that rebel groups can get what they want, when they want it, and when they most need it. Hazen's assessments of resource availability in the wars in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Côte d'Ivoire lead to a better understanding of rebel group capacity and options for war and war termination. Resources entail more than just cash; they include various other economic, military, and political goods, including natural resources, arms and ammunition, safe haven, and diplomatic support. However, rebel groups rarely enjoy continuous access to resources throughout a conflict. Understanding fluctuations in fortune is central to identifying the options available to rebel groups and the reasons why a rebel group chooses to pursue war or peace. The stronger the group's capacity, the more options it possesses with respect to fighting a war. The chances for successful negotiations and the implementation of a peace agreement increase as the options of the rebel group narrow. Sustainable negotiated solutions are most likely, Hazen finds, when a rebel group views negotiations not as one of the solutions for obtaining what it wants, but as the only solution.

Author : Andrea Wulf
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 15,17 MB
Release : 2023-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1984897993

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A NEW YORKER ESSENTIAL READ • From the best-selling author of The Invention of Nature comes an exhilarating story about a remarkable group of young rebels—poets, novelists, philosophers—who, through their epic quarrels, passionate love stories, heartbreaking grief, and radical ideas launched Romanticism onto the world stage, inspiring some of the greatest thinkers of the time. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times • The Washington Post "Make[s] the reader feel as if they were in the room with the great personalities of the age, bearing witness to their insights and their vanities and rages.” —Lauren Groff, New York Times best-selling author of Matrix When did we begin to be as self-centered as we are today? At what point did we expect to have the right to determine our own lives? When did we first ask the question, How can I be free? It all began in a quiet university town in Germany in the 1790s, when a group of playwrights, poets, and writers put the self at center stage in their thinking, their writing, and their lives. This brilliant circle included the famous poets Goethe, Schiller, and Novalis; the visionary philosophers Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel; the contentious Schlegel brothers; and, in a wonderful cameo, Alexander von Humboldt. And at the heart of this group was the formidable Caroline Schlegel, who sparked their dazzling conversations about the self, nature, identity, and freedom. The French revolutionaries may have changed the political landscape of Europe, but the young Romantics incited a revolution of the mind that transformed our world forever. We are still empowered by their daring leap into the self, and by their radical notions of the creative potential of the individual, the highest aspirations of art and science, the unity of nature, and the true meaning of freedom. We also still walk the same tightrope between meaningful self-fulfillment and destructive narcissism, between the rights of the individual and our responsibilities toward our community and future generations. At the heart of this inspiring book is the extremely modern tension between the dangers of selfishness and the thrilling possibilities of free will.

Author : Hyeran Jo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 13,75 MB
Release : 2015-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1107110041

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This book analyzes civil wars over the past twenty years and examines what motivates some rebel groups to abide by international law.

Author : Ruma Chopra
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 40,58 MB
Release : 2011-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0813931169

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Thousands of British American mainland colonists rejected the War for American Independence. Shunning rebel violence as unnecessary, unlawful, and unnatural, they emphasized the natural ties of blood, kinship, language, and religion that united the colonies to Britain. They hoped that British military strength would crush the minority rebellion and free the colonies to renegotiate their return to the empire. Of course the loyalists were too American to be of one mind. This is a story of how a cross-section of colonists flocked to the British headquarters of New York City to support their ideal of reunion. Despised by the rebels as enemies or as British appendages, New York’s refugees hoped to partner with the British to restore peaceful government in the colonies. The British confounded their expectations by instituting martial law in the city and marginalizing loyalist leaders. Still, the loyal Americans did not surrender their vision but creatively adapted their rhetoric and accommodated military governance to protect their long-standing bond with the mother country. They never imagined that allegiance to Britain would mean a permanent exile from their homes.

Author : Robin D. G. Kelley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 20,71 MB
Release : 1996-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1439105049

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Many black strategies of daily resistance have been obscured--until now. Race rebels, argues Kelley, have created strategies of resistance, movements, and entire subcultures. Here, for the first time, everyday race rebels are given the historiographical attention they deserve, from the Jim Crow era to the present.

Author : Mark Irving Lichbach
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 26,54 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780472085743

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The author brings significant new insights to the study of dissent, rebellion, and revolution